Places tomak Wants to Go

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Berlin's old airport.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

Believed to be the smallest castle in Europe.

Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The most northern place on the mainland of Great Britain.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.